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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

Jonathan Edwards

You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Divine Knowledge Possession Treasure Yourself
They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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Creditor Due God Grace Mercy True
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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Affection Business Himself Knowledge Religion
By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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Decision Fruit God Grace People Salvation
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Feeling Hell Myself Pain Thinking
The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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God Mercy Stand Stay
Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Revenge Solution
Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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Business Heart Life Love Principle
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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Afraid Life Myself
Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Anxiety Calm Mindset Nature Quiet
Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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Exercise Faith God Man Trust
He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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God Live Prayer World
Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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Friendship Glory God Intelligence Prayer Sincere
He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Himself Known True
Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Goodness Love Ourselves Virtue
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Creature God Happiness

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